On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:55:02PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:>...> Ok, the kernel compiled with gcc version 3.2.1 20021207 (Red Hat Linux 8.0> 3.2.1-2) has now been up for more than a week. It seems stable, but I'm not> sure yet.> > Which brings me to the question: which gcc version is considered most stable> for compiling 2.4.x these days?>...> This seems to suggest 2.96-85 would be more stable than gcc-3.2.1-2. Is this> the case?>...

2.95.3 and the (unofficial) 2.96 are the best compilers for 2.4 .

In most cases 3.2.1 will give you a working kernel, but if you needmaximum stablity don't use gcc 3.x for compiling kernel 2.4 .

cuAdrian

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